Button



(No Model.)

B. TRAUB & F. PETERS.

BUTTON.

No. 430,306. Patented June 1'7, 1890.

WITNESSES: INV NTDR E'mll Traub,

5,6513 Fred Peters ATTY'S.

FEicE.

PATENT EMIL TRAUB AND FRED PETERS, OF NEXVARK, NE\V JERSEY.

BUTTON.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,306, dated June17, 1890.

Application filed April 1, 1890. Serial No. 346,232. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EMIL TRAUB and FRED PETERS, the former a citizen ofthe United States and the latter a subject of the Emperor of Germany,both residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons; and we dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact deseriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, whichform a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to lessen the liability of buttons beingtorn from garments by hard usage, and also to render them capable ofbeing readily removed from garments when nolonger in use and applied toother or new garments, and also to render them capable of being readilyand quickly applied to garments by any person at any time withoutimplements or tools of any kind to perforate the cloth or to fasten themsecurely thereto.

The invention consists in the improved button and in the arrangement andcombination of the several parts thereof, as will be hereinafter setforth, and finally pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents in plan apiece of cloth with our improved button thereon. Fig. 2 is a similarview showing the opposite side of the cloth and the back or shoe of thebutton. Fig. 3 represents in elevation our improved button as secured toa piece of cloth, and Fig. 4 is a vertical section taken through line a:of said Fig. 1. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are detail views of the several parts.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts wherever theyoccur.

In said drawings, 01, indicates the front or outer portion of thebutton, which carries a coiled-wire screw 1) and a hollow cylindricaldownwardly projecting hub c, which incloses said screw, the end of saidhub being serrated or toothed,as shown.

0 indicates the back or shoe of the button, which is also provided witha coiled-wire screw (1, adapted to engage and interlock with theaforesaid screw 1), the object of which will hereinafter appear.

6 indicates an intermediate centrally-perforated plate or disk, which insome cases carries a hollow cylindrical upwardly-projecting hub f,though said hub may be dispensed with in the cheaper classes of buttons,if desired, without departing from the spirit of the invention. Thebutton, however, consists of three parts, the front, the back, and theintermediate plate or disk. Said plate or disk is provided upon itsouter surface with slight projections i, or depressions, if preferred,adapted to engage with the serrations or teeth upon the hub of the frontplate or part of the button to hold the latter in position. The

screws are made somewhat like a wire cork-- screw, and the hubs c and f,when both are used, are designed to fit to one another telescopicallywhen the parts are put together, as will be seen in the drawings.

The button is adjusted upon a garment in the following manner, to wit:The shoe 0 is first screwed into and through the cloth, as shown inFigs. 3 and i. The intermediate portion or plate 6 is then-adjusted uponthe opposite side of the cloth, the screw (1 project ing through thecentral perforation or hub of said plate. The outer portion or front ofthe button is then adjusted upon said plate, the hubs telescoping, andscrewed down tightly thereon until the teeth upon the end of the hub bengage with the projections 71 or recesses,

as the case may be, in said plate, which prevents the parts fromseparating without the application of force, as will be understood. Thusit will be seen that the liability of the button to tear out the clothis greatly lessened, as there is no hole made in the cloth, except whatis made by the wire screw,.which is only like that made by a needle.Moreover, the buttons can readily be removed from a garment when thelatter is no longer Worn and be secured to another or new garment anynumber of times till the button itself is worn out, thus accomplishing agreat saving as compared with many buttons heretofore in use. The

said device is also capable of being used as a fastener to secure two ormore pieces of cloth or other soft material together, as will beunderstood.

front portion, and projections to engage with the teeth on saidhub,'said parts being ar- 15 ranged and adapted to operate in relationto one another, as described, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing We have hereunto set our handsthis 12th day 20 of March, 1890.

EMIL TRAUB. FRED PETERS.

Witnesses:

OLIVER DRAKE, OSCAR A. MICHEL.

